Related Content
• 2024 Special Awards Announcements and Features
• #CSCUnite24 Convention Home
• Past Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented to individuals who have served at least 25 years
in the athletics communications profession (as of July 2023) who are retiring or leaving the profession.
Years of service vetted by the Special Awards Committee.
Dick Lipe – Bentley University, Director of Athletic Communications (retired)
Dick Lipe, a multi-Hall of Famer and a long-time member of CSC's Academic All-America Committee, retired from a full-time athletic communications role in July 2023. Lipe had a 50-plus year career on the Bentley campus, including 46 as the school's first full-time sports information director. Involved with the CSC Academic All-America program since 1979, he served as chair of the CSC Academic All-America Committee from 1994 to 2011 and was chair of the Academic All-America Hall of Fame Selection Committee for over 25 years. He was inducted into the CSC Hall of Fame in 2002.
Gallery: (2-27-2024) Dick Lipe, Lifetime Achievement
NBC Sports Boston and Boston Celtics' long-time Hall of Fame Play-by-Play Voice, Mike Gorman –
"I'm not sure exactly how to put in words how good Dick is as a stat man. He doesn't just hand you cold numbers, but rather, heats them so they support your thesis whatever it may be at that specific moment. Some days I believe he is responsible for 75 percent of what I say on the air. I have been lucky enough to work for all three of the major networks as well as ESPN and Turner. I would say without the slighted hesitation that Dick Lipe was clearly the best to ever sit on my right side.
"
(Dick has worked as a Boston Celtics statistician courtside with Mike Gorman for 42 years).
MetroWest Daily News Sports Columnist, Lenny Megliola –
"As busy as Dick was, he always managed to take your call or greet an unexpected visitor at his office door. To those in the sportswriting business, to hear his name was usually followed by the words 'good guy.' He's been a positive model for his craft.
Following five decades on campus, including 46 as the only full-time sports information director in Bentley history,
Dick Lipe stepped down from that role on last July and has transitioned into a new part-time role with Bentley University Athletics as sports information specialist.
Lipe, a 1977 graduate of what was then Bentley College, has been inducted into the Bentley Athletic, Northeast-10 and College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) halls of fame. He is the longest tenured full-time employee in Bentley Athletics history.
During his time at Bentley, Lipe has witnessed the Falcons capture NCAA Division II national championships in women's basketball (2014) and field hockey (2001); covered 18 basketball teams that reached the Elite Eight; and publicized many teams and student-athletes that earned Northeast-10 championships and/or competed in NCAA championships. During his tenure, Bentley student-athletes whom he has nominated have been selected for Academic All-America honors 88 times.
Lipe has been heavily involved with the CSC Academic All-America program since 1979, serving as chair of the CSC Academic All-America Committee from 1994 to 2011 and is a former chair of the Academic All-America Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
His list of honors from CSC also includes the 2002 Warren Berg Award and the 1996 Lester Jordan Award for his work with the Academic All-America program.
Lipe also received the 2002 Irving Marsh Award from the Eastern Athletic Communications Association (EAST-COMM, formerly ECAC-SIDA) and the 2000 Elmore (Scoop) Hudgens Sports information Director Award from the All-America Football Foundation. He also served as the first information director for the Northeast-10 Conference and has also worked as talent statistician and researcher for NBC Sports Boston and its predecessors on Boston Celtics broadcasts since 1980.